• Crit Care · Jan 2008

    Editorial Comment

    The essential nature of healthcare databases in critical care medicine.

    • Greg S Martin.
    • Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Emory University School of Medicine, 49 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA. greg.martin@emory.edu
    • Crit Care. 2008 Jan 1; 12 (5): 176.

    AbstractMedical databases serve a critical function in healthcare, including the areas of patient care, administration, research and education. The quality and breadth of information collected into existing databases varies tremendously, between databases, between institutions and between national boundaries. The field of critical care medicine could be advanced substantially by the development of comprehensive and accurate databases.

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